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Welcome to the Potter's House podcast. You are home away from home. Stay a while. As the word of God restores your hope and transforms your life. Second Chronicles, chapter 20. Beginning at verse 13, we're going to read through verse 22. It's always a blessing when Papa's in the house. Good to see you, sir. And of course, our forever First Lady Mama is in the house. And when they're not in the house, you may not see them, but they see us because they're watching live stream and they're praying. And I'm just grateful for them. All right. Second Chronicles, chapter 20. Beginning in verse 13, it says, now all, all Judah, with their little ones, their wives and their children stood before the Lord. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jael, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph in the midst of the assembly. And he said, listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat. Thus says the Lord to you. Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude. For the battle was not yours, but God's. Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel. You will not need to fight in this battle. Just position yourselves, position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem, do not fear or be dismayed. Do not fear or be dismayed. Do not be perplexed. Do not be taken back. Do not be. This is for somebody. Do not be disoriented because of the battle. Tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground. And all Judah and the the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord, worshiping the Lord. Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korah Heights stood up to praise the Lord before God of Israel with voices loud and high. So they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, pay attention. Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established. And also believe his prophets, and you shall prosper. There's a difference. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should Sing to the Lord and who should praise the beauty of holiness. And they went out before the army and were saying, praise the Lord for his mercy endures forever. Now when they begin to sing and to praise the Lord, set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah. And they were defeated. Father, we thank you for your word. It is a lamp unto our feet. It is a light unto our path. Hallelujah. In the beginning was your word. And your word was with you. And your word was you. And everything that you have done, are doing and will do. Will all be done by your word. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. Father, I thank you for the infilling of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom and revelation and counsel and might and knowledge, and the fear of the Lord and everything that is required to release words, revelations, insights that will bless and build your people. I thank you that it's done and will never be the same. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Hallelujah. God bless you. I want to talk from this thought idea. The victory zone. The victory zone. The United States has the most powerful military force in the world. I was doing a little study and There are over 13,000 military aircraft, nearly 300 battle force ships, more than 4,000 tanks in the military, and thousands upon thousands of nuclear warheads. The most powerful army in the world. They have weapons that are so advanced that some of them can strike targets from continents away. That's how robust the American military is. And yet most who study modern warfare will tell you that many of the greatest threats facing the nation today may not come through anything that we can see. Not a plane in the sky, not a tank crossing a border, not a ship approaching a coastline, but things that we can't see, like a cyber attack, biological threats, biochemical warfare. You've heard of that. AI enabled warfare. Attacks on power grids and banking systems and satellites and communications, and attacks on our infrastructure. These are the greatest risks and threats to the nation right now. And guess what? All of these are invisible. You can see a plane, you can see a tank, you can see a ship, but you cannot see a virus. Covid came upon us and we did not see it coming. It wiped many of us, sadly and unfortunately and tragically wiped many of us out. And we never saw it coming. A battle, a war had been waged against us, but it happened in a realm that we could not see. Are you tracking with me? So from a military perspective and a War perspective, the greatest threat may not be visible, but the effects, the outcomes, what it produces, the consequences will very much be visible. As we continue our conversation about warfare, I want to hone in on the environment that this war is being played out in. I want to talk about the battlefield itself, as well as to talk about the weapons that have to be used in order to win the battle that we're in. Matter of fact, let me remix that in order to win the battle that we've won. Are you tracking with me? Because as we talked about before, we're not fighting for victory. We're fighting. So it's important to understand. Stay with me. We're going to go some places today. It's important to understand the environment because if we don't understand where the battle is truly taking place, will be distracted by what's seen. Not realizing that what's seen is being produced by what's not seen. Stay with me. Even the scripture In Hebrews, chapter 11 talks about how the worlds were framed by the word of God, meaning the things that we see were framed, were created by things that we do not see. And if you don't understand this, then you will be fighting spiritual battles with natural weapons, and you will end up fatigued and frustrated. I want to talk to some people really quickly because some of you have got your dukes up and you need to get on your knees. Because the way this thing works is the battle is first won in the spirit and then in the natural. All you do is you go get the spoils, Dr. Williams. You get the spoils from what happened in the spirit. I almost called this message in the spirit. Because the greatest battle, the greatest work that you and I must do does not start in this natural realm. Oh, we gonna have some fun today. No, no. If you work well in the spirit, what you did in the spirit will show up in the natural. There's some people, I believe there's enough praying power in this room right now where you can lift up your voice right now and pray and decree something for God. Ghana or Brazil or China or Africa. Right here in this room, you can open up your mouth and decree a thing, bless a thing, speak a thing, even for your house, for your children. Right now, you can subdue something, bind something, lose something, and get home and see that thing worked out. That's how powerful your weapons are. And we are frustrated. I'm gonna go back to that. Frustrated. And we're fatigued and we're worn out because we've been spending too much time fighting a Spiritual battle with our dukes up. You can't knock out a demon. You can't swing on a demon. You can't mma a demon. You can't wrestle a demon. And so I'm fatigued. The scripture, we looked at it and we got a lot of stuff to talk about, but when we looked at it, talked about what stood out to me. He says, don't be afraid or dismayed. Sometimes we are dismayed because there is. How can I put this? We have the wrong weapons. We're using the wrong weapons. Watch this. There is inequality in the battle. Are you gonna get this? And we're dismayed and we're perplexed because we are giving it all we got. It ain't nothing moving. And now we're fatigued, and now we're burnt out, and we have exhausted all of our energy because we've been fighting in the wrong realm. The Bible says In Ephesians, chapter 6, verse 12, you all know, says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness. Watch this. In the heavenly places, that's invisible. Paul is saying, I know you think it's your boss, Marie Voshata. I know you think it's your neighbor. I know you think it's your favorite or least favorite politician. He said, the. The. The enemy can. Can. His system can show up through those things, but that's not where it starts. We ain't. We. We. We ain't wrestling against flesh and blood. What I love about Paul is Paul was passionate about the people of God not being ignorant. He would always say. He would say, listen, we are not ignorant of his devices. In another place on Jackie, he said, I don't want you to be ignorant. People say ignorance is bliss. Not in the spirit. Not in the spirit. So Paul is saying that. And I love this because he starts off by saying, we're not wrestling against flesh and blood. It was almost as if he knew we would be distracted by what's happening in the natural. And the enemy wants to keep us. Watch this in carnal conversations. Oh, I can't wait to unpack this message. He wants to keep us speaking down here so that the enemy can have an advantage of us up here, an advantage over us. So Paul is saying, I need to train you, because the first step of victory is understanding where the victory zone is. And the victory zone is not here. The victory zone is in the spirit. That's why we have to become sons and daughters of The Spirit. The Spirit of the Spirit. Of the Spirit. Can I just. Can I take my time and flow in the Spirit? In the Spirit. In the Spirit. I'm thinking about John in the book of Revelation. He says. He says, I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. In other words, I'm just like you. I was on the island that is called Patmos for. For the word of God. In other words, you know, he got in trouble for preaching, and he was in exile on the island of Patmos. And check this out. What's interesting is, John, the only reason he. We know that he was on an island is because he told us. Everything that he presented to us, he presented to us from the Spirit. When you think of the book of Revelation and all the revelation that we get from Revelation, you don't think about no island. You think about a dimension. You think about the heavenly realm. You think about. You're not thinking about. And the only way we know that he was physically on the isle of Patmos is because he told us he was. So in the Spirit. He talked of the Spirit. He walked of the Spirit. He moved in the spirit. And there's some of you, and I hear this. This is prophetic for some of you. For some of you, the reason why you feel the attack so heavy is because you are in your flesh too much. And I hear God saying, if you will learn how to get in the spirit, God says, I'll shield you in the spirit. Whoa. I feel God, the enemy has access to you because you're walking around in the realm where he still has dominion. But I hear God saying, you got to learn how to lean into the spirit. You got to get into the spirit. Oh, I got to say this right. I got to say this right. You're too accessible to the enemy. You're too accessible in your emotions, in your feelings, in the natural. You are too accessible to the enemy. And I hear God saying, you got to lean into the spirit. When you hear John the Revelator, who is on the Isle of Patmos physically, but in the spirit spiritually, you don't hear him talking about the enemy's victory. You don't hear him talking about the enemy. Got no victory. He's talking about the throne and the elders around the throne and blessings and glory and honor and dominion and all those things. Why? Because he is in the spirit. I feel this for somebody. Some of you are getting ready to walk out of your emotions, walk out of your flesh, walk out of Your feelings walk out of your hurt and you're getting ready to walk in the spirit. Something is going to break. If that's you give God about 8 seconds of worship in this house. Huh? Huh? That's why you've been able to access me. That's why you've been able to frustrate me. That's why I'm fatigued. I haven't spent enough time in the spirit. Where are my spiritual people? In God's house. I dare you to give God a shout in the spirit. In this house, We ain't wrestling against flesh and blood. We're talking about talking about the right battlefield. I'm fighting from the wrong level, and that's why I'm fatigued and frustrated. Oh, this is a spiritual battle. And that ought to excite you, because when you realize that it's a spiritual battle and you are a son and a daughter of the most high God, and greater is he. Oh, I got a revelation for that. Hey, I've got a word for that. I've got a strategy for that. Oh, this is a spiritual battle. That's good news, baby. That battle has been fought and it has been won. Mm. So we're. We look at all these natural things that are taking place in the earth. We're shaking our heads, saying, lord, Lord, things are just getting so crazy. And when you see those natural things taking place, you have to resist wanting to have a natural response. I get it, I get it, I get it. Natural things. And the enemy wants us to respond naturally. Watch this. That's why we never get anywhere. That's why we never get anywhere. I thank God for the right to vote. Oh, yeah. And I vote every chance I get because it makes a difference. But how many of us know politics ain't gonna solve it? Two things can be true. You can do your part, and maybe you can help a little bit. But the battle didn't start there. It started there. Watch this. So I pray, and then I vote, and then I leave the vote, and then I pray again. Watch this. Believing in the efficacy of my prayer over my party. So the enemy. Enemy says, I don't want you to focus on the spiritual stuff. Leave that alone. Watch this. And we had. And there's a phrase, and I partially agree with it, and you heard that phrase, you are so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good. And that. I kind of get it because. Because some people abandon their natural responsibilities and they're just so spiritual and they never actually walk out anything in the natural. I get that. I get that. But sometimes we are so earthly minded that we are no heavenly good. Come on. So the enemy says, I don't want you to think spiritually. Think, think, think. Don't, don't worry about that spiritual stuff. It almost feels like the garden. The way the tempter shifted their focus from the invisible inerrant word that they received to look at that tree. You see it from the very beginning, pulling them away from the spirit. The word is spirit, word is spirit. There was no written word. It was spirit. Boom. He said, no, no, no, don't worry about that. Look at that. Trying to watch this give them an unhealthy diet of the physical realm. And he's still doing it today. One of the things that makes hell nervous is a praying church, is an interceding church, is a church that legislates in the spirit. Legislates, legislates. Because there are spiritual laws. Let me just, just be free here. The spiritual laws. The reason why the enemy doesn't want you in the spirit is because the enemy knows that there are laws in the spirit that have him bound up, tied up and defeated. There is nothing in the natural realm that can defeat him. So he wants us to play that game because that's a game he will win all day. He's the prince of the power of the air. Watch this. In one place in the scripture, he's called the ruler of this world. So he wants you to play in the worldly level. Because if you ever got a revelation of who you were in the spirit, and if you ever got a revelation of the tools that God has given you in the spirit, and if you ever got a revelation of the victory and the authority the, that you have in the spirit, and if you ever got a revelation that what you do in the spirit will show up in the natural, you'll be dangerous. Dangerous. The invisible produces the visible. It is not the other way around. It always begins in the spirit first. Even God models this in a, in a passage of scripture that sometimes we can maybe miss the deeper understanding of it. You know, when the Bible says over in Samuel, he says man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. And there are layers to that revelation. What God is saying there is. Watch this. First of all, he is communicating his process and his sequence. When he says God looks at the heart, he's saying, I look at the invisible first. Man is caught up on the outside, man is caught up on the visible. I first look at the invisible, the heart. So he's teaching us how to look how to think. You are a spiritual being. Your body will wear your hair, will pack up its bags and leave you without warning. But. But. But your spirit, as long as you have breath, remains. So what? Right there in your own anatomy is the truth of what is more reliable. Your spirit. On purpose. And you were just given these bodies to navigate this temporary earthly realm. But you are a spirit. And not only are you a spirit, the Bible says that God is spirit. So it's always spirit first. Can I take my time? And so. And so we're talking about battlefields and weapons. It will always start in the invisible. That's where God starts. The inner produces the outer. Now let's talk about our weapons real quick. You've seen this passage of scripture before. It's 2nd Corinthians 10. It says, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. We looked at battlefield number one. That's the unseen environment. The Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth. The heavens and the earth. The heavens are. It's. The heavens represent the invisible realm. You can get much deeper in that. Paul talks about the third heaven. We not doing all that today. We're just talking about the invisible realm, right? That's one battlefield. One battlefield. Watch. This is the invisible. The invisible. Invisible realm. The invisible realm of creation. But there is another invisible realm. That is where the other battlefield is. The second battlefield. That's your mind. Okay, okay, let's look at it. Look at it. Because you got to win on both battlefields. You got to win it in the spirit, and you got to win it in your mind. Are you tracking all right? You about to see it? All right, okay. So it says, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down. Here we go. Arguments. And every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every. What? Uh, oh, here we go. Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. So battlefield number one is warring in the spirit, decreeing to principalities and powers. Watch this. The written laws. They're laws. The enemy knows. There are laws everywhere. That's why the ocean has to stop at a certain place, because it was written. That's why the sun has to come up or the sun has to stay there. That's why things rotate and move, because they're laws. God spoke it. Boom. And it said, and here we are. Thousands or millions, however you flow of years later, the laws still stand. The law of gravity is the law. There are also spiritual laws. And some of us have to become spiritual law enforcement agents. You gotta enforce those laws. But there also is another battlefield. And that is the invisible realm of your mind. Think about it. A thought, you can't see a thought, it's invisible. Look at how our physical anatomy mirrors creation. In creation, there is an invisible realm. And in you and I, there's an invisible realm. It's the world of our thoughts. Hallelujah. And they're not uninfluenced by one another because those thoughts that we're going to talk about in a minute that are outside are out of order. Just show up there. The prince of the power of the air whispers in your ear. And he is such a pervert. Yeah, I said it. The enemy is a pervert. Always attempting to pervert. Distort the truth from the very beginning. Did God really say, God just knows that blah blah, blah, blah, blah. He is a pervert. He's a pervert and he's a master pervert. He needs to be on some registry. So Paul is saying there are two battlefields. One is heavenly places, the other is in your head. And if you're going to have victory, you've got to learn how to fight the battle in both places. Track with me. We're almost there. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. In other words, though I'm in it, I don't watch this. Although I am in it, I don't fight from it. People trying to draw you into stuff, trying to draw you into. You'll never win a social media fight. You know when you win a social media fight, when you block the person and move on and get back to the purpose and the calling of your life, that's when you win a social media fight. You're not going to intellectualize because you're fighting here, you're in it, but you can't war according to it. And sometimes you don't even know it. Sometimes I think it be a demon. Sometimes no followers, nobody following them but got something to say. It could be a spirit and you over here arguing with a spirit. There was one time, there was one time somebody left a comment that only the enemy could have instructed them to leave because it was so personal. It was so personal and the comment was so stupid that a person couldn't be both that insightful and that stupid at the same time. And it hit me in a place. Watch this. Of insecurity that nobody knew about. 0 followers, No image, but with a perverted word. In a vulnerable moment. And then I started doing that math, and I said, oh, that was a spirit. The only social media fight you win is the fight you leave. Are you hearing me? All right, we got. We got to get through this while I'm there. Why am I there? Okay, okay. So for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty. In God for pulling down strongholds, we know strongholds literally are fortified arguments. You'd have to Greek it and break it all down, but trust me, that's what it means right here. In this context, he's not even talking about a demon. In this context, he's talking about arguments. Now, we know that the arguments can come from the demonic, but that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about a thought. A thought that has been so fortified in your thinking, you think it's your thought. Ooh. Trying to move through this. But it is possible for there to be a stronghold in your life that is oppressing you daily, almost like a demon. Oppressing you daily. You wake up with that thought. You go to work with that thought. You are in a relationship with that thought. You can't shake that thought, and you're wondering, and it's become. Watch this. It's been with you so long that you cannot separate yourself from the thought. I got to say that better. I got to say that better. I got to say that better. It has become so. So intimately interwoven into your consciousness that you don't even feel like you can rebuke it, because your identity, it has interwoven itself into the fabric of your consciousness, of your identity. That's a stronghold. That's when it's strong, because you're trying not to think that thought. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel like God's going to break something up in here today. You try not to think that thing. You're trying not to think that way. You're trying to get free from it. And you've tried everything in the natural to get free. And God says, let me let you in on something. Even for the battlefield of your mind. God has given you a weapon that is mighty through God for the pulling down of that stronghold. And let me tell you something. That word pulling down, better translation of that word, is literally demolishing. I feel the Holy Ghost in this place right now. I feel like the spirit of God is getting ready to move on somebody's mind right now, unlike ever before. You have tried counseling, you have tried prayer, you have tried a whole bunch of things. But God is saying that right now, in this moment, there is a grace to democracy. Every high thing that is exalting itself against the knowledge of God. If I'm talking to you and you're here and there's been a stronghold over your thinking, I want you to stand to your feet and I want you to cup your hands like this, like you are getting ready to receive something. Because I feel the Holy Ghost in this place and I feed God with a sledgehammer and he is get ready to go to work on that which is going to work against you. I just want you right now to just start praising and I'm going to intercede, I'm going to pray in the spirit. And something is getting ready to break off of your mind. God, we recognize your presence in this house and your word declares that we have got weapons and they are mighty. God, move through these pews. Move online, arrest, call, captive, hold captive, every high thing. Come on, come on. Just create an atmosphere of praise real quick. An atmosphere of praise real quick. That's you. Put your hands on your mind as they put their hands. Hands on their mind. I thank you, God, that it is no longer their hands, but it is your hands. Break that yoke right now. Cast out that pervert right now. In the name of Jesus, I dare you to open your mouth and thank God like you are free. Oh, come on. You gotta know how to catch a moment. He's interrupted the service, the whole service on your behalf. Hallelujah. It ain't your battle. God saying is mine. Come on, let's do business. We just read it. The pulling down of strongholds, the demolishing of. Huh? For this purpose, the son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil. I wish I had about 3,000 people and another 20,000 online that would go to war right now with to hit. How bad do you want it? I don't care how long you thought that way. I gotta tell you, before I even got here today, I felt a shift in the spirit. I felt victory in the spirit. Today. Today. Today. You know how the Bible says, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Good morning. Good morning. I dare you to receive it. I dare you to receive it. I double dare you. Good morning. Good morning. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. This is the promise of God over your life. Every high Thing must come down. Every stronghold must break. Hallelujah, Holy Ghost. Run through this room like a lion. Like a lion. Run through this room. Set your people free. Run through this room, set the captives free. In the name of every yoke broken. Every yoke broken. God loves you and he's for you. What we doing? What we doing? What we doing? What we doing? Freedom. For the weapons of our warfare. Dang carnal, this is higher. That's why it says casting down is higher. Freedom is not optional. You're not in a negotiation for your freedom. That was dealt with. That deal is closed. That deal is closed. Closed. Never negotiate for your freedom. Never negotiate for your promise. Because the one who promised cannot lie. It's yours. Hallelujah. You've been negotiating with the enemy. We don't negotiate with terrorists. We wipe them out. I don't care how long it's been that way. Yeah, Paul said they're going to be fortified arguments. They're going to be things that have been there so heavy and so long that you feel like it's your norm. No, it ain't. No, it ain't. No, it ain't. Same power that raised Jesus from the dead. From the dead. It don't get no lower than that. Jehoshaphat came under a vicious attack. And they stood before the Lord with their children and their wives and their families. And the prophet, the Bible says, watch this. The Bible says, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon the prophet of God. And he spoke and he spoke a truth, A truth that was written. So. So, see, back then, not everyone had the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost was only given. It was given with measure. So the Spirit had to come to the prophet to bring revelation about the law, the word which I had time to unpack it. He had to bring the truth from the heavenly realm to the king. And the king ultimately followed the instructions, positioned themselves and aligned themselves. And what was written was revealed. What was written in the heavenlies was manifest in the natural whether word made flesh, whether it was already written. God didn't do anything new by the Spirit of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord came and introduced to them through the prophet what was already done. Now we have access to the Spirit, so we can go into the Spirit and see. If you study that in Revelation with John, John said, I was in the Spirit. And then he says, I heard. Look at it. If you go back to Revelation, chapter one, verse ten, he says, I was in the Spirit. And then if you just keep reading, you look at it, he says, and I heard he starts hearing when he is now in the spirit and he's hearing the truth. He's hearing the rules and the laws that are in his favor as a child of God. And now he can appropriate that. Gotta say that better. There is a revelation and a law in the spirit for anything that comes your way in the spirit. We don't spend enough time in the spirit, in the very place where the trouble started. We're fighting where the trouble shows up and wondering why we stay in trouble. No, we've got to get to the root of the issue. You think your child cutting up started with the child? No. There's something on that child's life. It's on that child's life. And you're saying I need to whoop them more or I need to gentle parent more. And there's a place for both. But before you do any of that, you get in the spirit and you speak decrees and you declare your child a brand plucked out of the fire. You cannot have this child. Fight there first. And if you get there, then God will give you stronger. Let me tell you something. My mama used to find all kind of stuff. I would try to hide stuff from my mama. And I was a pretty good hider until my mama and the Holy Ghost got together. I mean, she found Deacon Pinson, she found all my stashes. It was like they were her stashes. Why? Because she was in the spirit. She was in the victory zone. And then Jehoshaphat, you know the story. You gotta read it. Read it. It's beautiful. They didn't have to do nothing, just get in position and then stand. In other words, stay in position. Here is where we lose it. We get in position for five minutes. It's almost like six and a half days is about our expiration date from Sunday to Saturday night. And I gotta come back on Sunday and get another shot. Six and a half days. No, you gotta get in position and you gotta stay in position. You gotta stay locked in there. That's what it says. It says they went in position and just stand. Stand still. I gotta say this right, and then we're landing. There is something qualifying, Something approving something worthy making of a person who stands, who doesn't move. My you're in London and you see those guards from the palace and they are there for hours and they cannot move. Flies come. You could get in their face. I wouldn't do that if I were you. But they are so disciplined that they stay on their post for the entirety of of their Shift. And even when it's time for them to shift, it is ceremonious. Step by step, calculated. There's something that makes you worthy of the promise. If you will hold your position for as long as it takes. I don't know who that's for. Hear God saying, hold your position. If God did not say move, why are you wiggling? Why are you squirming? Hold your position. Okay, I need to land this. So he says, believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established. But he doesn't stop there. And then he says, believe his prophets and you will prosper. Why does he make this distinction? He makes this distinction because there's a difference between you being established in salvation and being established in the warfare that will procure for you everything the enemy stole from you. I need to say that better. I need to say that better. I need to say it the way I wrote it. There's a difference. A lot of people are saved, but not everyone is getting their stuff. It's the difference. Oh, I said it. It's the difference between just having eternal life, which is absolutely wonderful. It's the difference between that and warring to take back. And the difference between the two is believing in God. I believe in God. And believing in. Now, of course, again here, the Spirit was not given. It was given with measure here. So it could be. If he were writing this now, he would say, believe in the Lord and you will be established. Believe in the prophetic, the voice, the word. Okay, pt. Prove it. Jesus says in John 14, he says, Believe in God, believe also in. And then he gives them revelation. So oftentimes we are saved. But we don't have a relationship with the voice of the Lord. And the prophetic of God. And as a result of it, yes, we're established. We're in Christ. That's wonderful. But God cannot use us. And we're not empowered to go lay hold of what God has for us. Are you tracking? So I gotta believe in the prophetic as well. And if I was the enemy, I would make you despise prophecy. Seen that in the Bible. Despise not prophesying. Wow. Okay. And so, my brothers and my sisters, to recap, to summarize, and to close, we're in a war, but we have won it already. And the one who always provides has given us everything that we need. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Don't spend your energy down here. I'm not saying that you can be derelict in your duties to do well in the natural. That's foolishness. But understand that the battle and the victory starts in the spiritual and we got to spend more time in the spirit and you got to trust. See, you got to spend so much time in the spirit. You enter into the natural with great optimism because you know it's already worked out. You start looking for your stuff. You're not looking for a fight, you're looking for your spoil. Because I have done the work. I did the work in the spirit. I prayed, I talked to God, I got a revelation and, and I stood in that revelation. I came into alignment. I didn't just believe God, I believe this prophet. There's so much prophecy that has come through this house today from the moment Dr. Williams got the mic to oh even before that from worship. There's so much prophecy and you got to learn how to catch it when it's yours. And don't just catch it, believe it. What have you written down today that now is your new reality. I know you believe in God, but do you believe in the prophetic? Do you believe when God gives you a tailor made word for your season and an instruction? Do you believe it with the same fortitude? God says I want to move you forward. Look, I want you to take root downward. That's establishing. And I also want you to bear fruit upwards that's prospering. And I need both. I need belief in God and I also need belief the prophetic flow that he brings my way. We can't afford to not have a relationship with the prophetic. We can't afford how you gonna know what's going on? All right, Get out of your flesh, get out of your emotions, get out of your feelings. Feelings. Hook up with some people that are committed to living in the spirit too. Let them call you weird. Let them call you weird. Have a vibrant spiritual life. I say this and we are entering into a time. Where what is happening in the natural realm is going to be so confusing and chaotic that you're going to just need to be in the spirit just to get a break from it all. The spirit's going to be like a vacation. I'm done right here. I'm done right here. I'm looking at social media right now, the algorithm. Social media favors these talking heads. So like a video like with me and it's fully produced and everything, the content could be amazing, but it won't go viral. But if they close up on me, like literally my head, my face where you can see my spirit, my expressions, all that kind of stuff, and if I'm Saying something pretty controversial. It'll go everywhere. And so what's happening is the algorithm is creating all of these passionate arguments. And they're up close, they're personal and they're divisive. And there are billions of people on this and there's no resolution track with me. They're arguing, they're fighting. It's nasty and vitriol and everybody's attacking each other. Check this out. That is unsustainable. No, hear me. Because it spills out. It goes from the Internet to real life, from the invisible. And hear me clearly. Family. I was talking to my wife the other day who's doing very well. She's recovering very well, thank God. Family. We were scratching our heads because we were saying this is not sustainable. No, hear me. Jesus taught, a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. The whole world is divided against itself. So watch this. It's not social. The way that we are moving through life right now is not sustainable. I didn't even talk about AI and the demand that it makes on the earth's resources. Can we have a real. Just give me a few moments. Have a real conversation with you. We ain't talking about that. And everybody knows it. The heads of these companies know it. They know that the course that it is on is not sustainable. And that's why you see them going to the moon. They're trying to find more outer space. They're trying to find more resources. And we're just zippity doo dah zippity ay. It's not sustainable. The way that it is moving faster than it is creating the jobs that it replaces is not sustainable. If people don't have money, who's your customer? It's not sustainable. And at the highest level, here are the conversations that people are having. They're having conversations about how to create companies. Watch this. That have zero employees. I'm trying to give you game. These are the conversations that are having zero employees. What I'm trying to get you to understand is the way that we are moving without the spirit is not sustainable. So when I'm saying that we got to live in the victory zone, we got to live in the spirit, we might come to a place to where that's the only way we're going to survive. This is the way. Walk in it. Do this with your resources. Don't do that. Go here. This is where it's going to be. It's on that level. I'm not trying to scare you. Because for every problem in the spirit, there's a solution. But if we are so entangled, as Paul wrote to Timothy in the affairs of this life, we won't be a good soldier in this war. So how. PT Okay, I get it spiritually, but how, sir, do I get in the spirit? What do I do? And don't tell me just to pray. Give it to me for real. How do I enter into the Spirit? Is that a fair question? And can I answer it real quick? The door into the Spirit is worship. The door into the Spirit is worship. In John, chapter four, somewhere around verse 23, he says, Jesus is speaking, but the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to worship him. And then it says, God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. You say, P.T. i get that. Okay, so worship is a spiritual thing. I get that. He's seeking, and it must be worship. Okay, okay, so let's go more practical. Colossians, chapter 3. Colossians, chapter 3. This is one of the most revelatory passages about worship in my estimation that I've ever seen. So watch this. So Paul says, believer. He's talking to believers. He says, if then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above. Stop right there. As a believer, we are now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, right? Now watch this. That means that we exist in two places because you're also seated here at the potter's house. But he says, as a believer, you are seated heavenly places. I have a natural seat, and I have a spiritual seat. So he says, so if then you were raised with Christ, this is worship. Seek those things which are above. That's why Jesus said, don't worry about what you're going to eat, what you want to drink. He says, don't do that. Seek first the kingdom of God, his righteousness. So the supposition is that there is a kingdom to seek. So I don't start looking to see if there is a kingdom. I start understanding that the kingdom is there. Now I am seeking it. I am earnestly seeking the kingdom. And I realize that I'm not going to find it in this realm. I ain't gonna find it on TikTok. Go find the kingdom on TikTok. I start from a place of recognizing that the kingdom is real and it is accessible to me. If I seek it with all my heart, if I prioritize it, the kingdom is extravagant. So you can't seek it like you're seeking a football Game. No disrespect, Michael. I'm seeking it as if it is a treasure, a rich, like my life depended on it. Okay, so if. Then you're raised with Christ, seek those things which are above. Hungry, thirsty. I'm in the Word. I'm coming to church every chance I get. I'm trying to watch this. I put myself in a position to not simply run into the Word, but have the Word run into me. So I've got Bibles in the bathroom. Everybody got to go to the bathroom. Hallelujah. I've got worship music playing in my car. I got podcasts of the Word playing because I'm hungry and I'm thirsty for God. So worship is not what you do on Sunday morning. Worship is how you posture yourself seeking something. And I'm seeking for something that's more precious and valuable than silver and gold, because it is. If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, above, above, above. Get out of your feelings, get out of your flesh. Get out of low level talking. Somebody said, PT man, like, how do you. How do you. How do you deal with critics? I said I'd have to lower my plane to hear them. I'd have to. You. You. Wait, so you want me. You're on the ground. Clearly, You ain't up there with me. You're on the ground. That's why you see me. Because I'm up there. You on the ground. Which means that I would have to come down to respect commentary from people who don't matter, Because I'm too busy seeking those things which are above it. See, I want to get so high up there that offense can't find me. Your critique can't even find me. I'm so high in and elevated in the spirit, I'd have to come down to even hear what you got to say. Because I can't get distracted off my mission. I'm on a mission. I got somewhere to go. Can you imagine Jesus? He was neither moved by praise nor criticism. He set his face like flint to Jerusalem. I've got a mission. I've got an assignment. I've only got a little bit of time left here. I've got to do what I've got to do. And I can't come down to hear the chatter of those who don't matter. Hey, that rhymed. Okay, we're almost there. I promise. Since you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above. They are there. They're there. Then it says, set your mind. Okay, Seek. That's first S. Seek those things which are above. Now, when you lock in, see some of you, God's given you words to lock in on. Now you gotta set your mind. What happens oftentimes is truth visits your mind and then it leaves because you push something else in your mind and it pushes out truth. But you gotta learn how to set the channel. When God gives you a word, you write that thing down. That's your new normal. Lock in. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Got to get up above that. Get up. In the spirit. Watch this. It says for you died. What? You, The old you, the lesser you, when you accepted Christ. Bible says if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things become new. So there's a version of you that wants to live even though it's dead. Oh, God, Jesus. Wish I had my former. It wants to live. It wants to. To pretend like it's alive. It's called your flesh. And you got to remember it's dead. It's like, if it's dead, how come it's still moving? Well, because you got to keep it dead. It's dead in the sense that it can't produce life, it can only produce death. It can't. Your flesh cannot produce anything that matters. It can only partner. Watch this. With the adversary of your soul to tear you down. So you have a part of you that is like a Judas. Oh, I got to stop that. There's a part of you that is like the young folks say, you. You have an ops in you, and it's in partnership with the enemy to take you down. So you have to remember that is dead. And if the thought didn't come by the spirit, then it might be trying to take you down. And it might seem like it's trying to take you up, but there's an end to it. I got it. I gotta finish. Make no covenant with your flesh. In your flesh, no good thing dwells. Nothing good can come out of your. Watch this. Out of your anger. Be angry, but don't sin. In other words, you can't respond from it. No good thing will come out of your lust. No good thing. Oh, okay. For you died. That part of you dead. It tries to live. You gotta remind it it's dead. You gotta say, that ain't me no more. You are an imposter. I know you look like me. I know we drive the same car, wear the same clothes, and live in the same house, but you and I ain't the same. You died. And your life, your life, your real life. This is what worship does. And your real life is hidden with Christ and God. So the process of worship is to seek those things which are above, seek the kingdom, seek God, and then when you find God, lock in, set your mind. Because you died, right? And what you're trying to get to is the other you. You died. And your life is now hidden in Christ. So as I'm seeking, the Bible says when Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. In glory, in the Spirit. Here's the mistake that we make. We think that Paul is only talking about when the Lord comes back and appears that is applicable. But that's not what he said. He says, as you're seeking and as you're setting Christ, you're going to find Christ because you're worshiping God. You're worshiping the Lord to see Him. I'm not worshiping him to deal with some arbitrary abstract. No, I'm looking for Christ. That's why when John the Revelator was in the Spirit, what did he see? He saw. Saw the throne. And he had descriptions because he sought the Lord. And guess what? He was in a place of isolation, which made seeking the Lord even easier. So maybe that's a fundamental part of worship is isolation. Setting yourself, setting time aside every day for you and the Lord to get in the spirit. To get in the spirit. And as you get in the spirit, you're going to see Christ. But the Bible says that when you see him, it says, there you will be also. That's how you get in the spirit. There's a version of you that's already there. And maybe we'll talk about this at another time. Come on, stand with me. I want to pray. I want to pray for you. Don't leave if you don't have to. We family, we. We're going to get this. We're going to get this. We are getting it. We are getting it. Next Sunday, we're celebrating 30 years. 30 years. And we will undeniably look back and thank God for the marvelous things he has done. And we will also look forward. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we've got the next gen with us here in service today. We cannot look forward without looking at you. And I think it's very interesting you guys got your crowns on. See, you got to pay attention. In the spirit, There's going to be, to a certain degree many of us transferring our crowns to you. We saw it on stage last night, Mom. Exchange of crowns so you can run your race with authority and power and grace. And I know the fellows y' all don't have, but you have invisible crowns. You have invisible crowns. It's on you. We cannot look forward at the next 30 without looking at you. And we got you. And we're praying and we're listening, and it's gonna be awesome. And you know what else is gonna be? It's gonna be yours. It's gonna be yours. It's not gonna be our faith. It's not gonna be our way. We're gonna guide you. We're gonna give you wisdom, but we're gonna listen. We want to know what God is saying to you. Now, you gotta get in the spirit so you have something to say back. But you guys are gonna build it. You're the future. I mean that. You feel me? It's you. It's you. Some crowns on. If you're here and you don't know the Lord, if you're here and you've never opened up your heart to Christ, and all of us had that one moment, there's not a person who was part of the family of God who did not at one point in their life, say yes to God. And if you hear and you're touched, let me tell you something. No one can even come to the Lord unless the Father draws. So if you feel drawn right now to say yes to God, to surrender, that's because Heaven is drawing you. And if heaven is drawing you, it's your moment. So if you're here and you feel divinely drawn and you feel like you need to say yes to the Lord, I want you to come and meet me here at this altar. We're going to pray for you if you don't have to leave. We'll be done in seven minutes. But if you're here and you say you just feel something and don't worry about who's looking at. I know that this can be in intimidating. It's a big place, but you got a big purpose. And he's a big God. If that's you, I want you to just come. Just. Just meet. Stand me. I'll wait for you. Come here. I see you. God bless you. Come on down. See, you thought you were by yourself. Come on. If you just feel God tugging you, I want you to come forward. I see you. I see you. I see you. Proud of you. Proud of you. Come on. If you're here, you just feel God saying, come on. I see. Come on, let's give it up. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Look at the next gen. I see you. I see you, daughter. I see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. If you're here and it's time to say yes to God, God says, for I know the plans I have for you. They are good and not evil plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. Everybody had a moment like this, and some of us had about 15 or 20 moments like this. And you might be here and you might be thinking, man, you know what? I did this before and I just don't want to pay play with God. I just don't want to, you know, and I actually respect that. You, you, you have character, you have integrity. I respect that. But you're not playing with God. God is drawing you. The Bible says that a just man falls seven times and rises back up again. So to that person who's like, you know what? I've done it before. I just don't want to let God down. Let me let you in on something right now. You cannot let God down. God already knew, knew the mistake you were going to make before you made it. Come on. God bless you. I see you. Come on, daughters. I see you. If you're watching via live stream, just say, I open up my heart to the Lord. Just say, I receive Jesus. Put it right there in the chat. If you're here. And maybe you've said yes, but it's time to rededicate your life to God. You want to rededicate your life to God? When I was talking to you about how unsustainable the world is, if you're honest in your heart and God is showing me your heart right now, if you're honest in your heart, you realize that your lifestyle is not sustainable, how you're moving through life. You. I'm going to describe it. You feel like any day something real bad is going to happen. You feel like you're on a course and you are out of control. And, you know, if that's you, come meet me at this altar. God's gonna change your course. He's gonna change that whole thing. Just meet me here. If you're online, just say, that's me, P.T. i'm praying for you. That's me, P.T. just put it right there in the chat. This is a real moment. This is a real moment. This is a real moment, and God is doing a real thing. This is a real moment. God will never give up on you. He'll never give up on you. He'll never give up on you ever. Never, never, ever, ever, ever. He will never leave you, nor forsake you. He will never give up on you because he sees things about you that you can't even see it but yourself. He knows what he created. He knows what he formed. He knows his investment in you. God knows. That's why he says, for I know the plans I have for you. It has nothing to do with the people that are around you. He says, I know. And I am the one who have kept you. I kept you. You didn't keep yourself. That was me. The very air that you're taking in, that was me. That was me. And I'm not finished with you. Last thing I'm going say, we're going to pray for real this time. God will change your life so radically that you won't even be able to access the version of you that you're trying to escape right now. You won't even be able to access it. He will completely, completely watch this. Who you are trying to be can't even compare to who God already knows that you are that he's going to bring you into. And it's massive. We ain't special like preachers and pastors and apostles and prophets. We. We're not special. We just say yes to God. That's all it is. We just surrender for real. And we took God at his word and we begin bet on him. We bet on God and he changed our lives. Ain't nothing special. That's why when I read John, he said, I, John, your fellow yokesman, your fellow believer. John said, I'm not different. I got all this revelation, all that kind of stuff. He said, I ain't no different. Just like you, I just might be a little further down the road because I said yes. But I believe that God will restore the years. He'll restore the years. He'll restore the years that the locusts have eaten. And we got you and you're safe and welcome home. Father, I thank you so much for what you've done in this house today. I thank you for the rich and radical love you have for these, your children, your sons and daughters. God, thank you for being for us. You know us, you made us, you fashioned us, you created us. God, you have kept us. If we're able to hear this prayer, it means that we've been kept by the power of God. Now, God, you said a lot today, and people heard their words in their own ways. And you gave them something to grab a hold to and to fight with. I thank you that we will fight a better fight as a result of the conversations that we've had in your word now. God, I thank you for these precious ones who have opened up their hearts to you. They've said yes to you. And God, we are so thankful for the power of a yes. Just one yes changes everything. Just one yes. And they've given you. They've given you that. Yes, my God, as they've given you that yes. Touch them in a way that only you can. Bless them, strengthen them, heal them. And God, I thank you for your spirit. I thank you that you're for them and not against them. Come here, give me a hug. God bless you. I love you. I love you. I love you a lot. Okay. I love you. And Father, as they're opening up their heart to you today, touch them in a very real and powerful way that they would know that this is not just another moment, but it's a moment that you mark them, that you've touched them because of the plans that you have for them. Bless each one. Thank you, Jesus. Touch them afresh. Father, I pray that they will not only believe in you. Hallelujah. But they will believe. Believe in your voice. Just speaking, even now. I pray, God, that you would whisper into their ears, that they would discern it. You said, my sheep, they hear me. They know my voice. And they wouldn't have been able to even come down to this altar unless they had heard your voice. So your voice is already at work. Lives. So touch them, bless them, fill them. And may they never be the same. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for the callings that's on their life. Hallelujah. Not simply for what you're going to do in them, but for what you're going to do through them. Hallelujah. I thank you for the greatness that's on their lives. Hallelujah. From the crown of their heads to the sole of their feet, the blessing of the Lord. It makes rich and you add no sorrow. I say it again. The blessing of the Lord. It maketh rich and he addeth no soul. Sorrow. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. The blessing of the Lord. The blessing of the Lord. You may not have been blessed when you were an infant, but you're blessed now. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. You're blessed. Now in Jesus name. I want you to repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you. Thank you for your word. I receive it. Heavenly Father, thank you for your Love. It's extravagant. Heavenly Father, thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who had no sin, all of mine, all of my weaknesses, all of my limitations, all of my shortcomings you placed in his body, nailed it to the cross and put it to death. And just as he was raised up, free and victorious, because I'm in him, I'm raised up too. I take my place seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God, I will seek you, I will pursue you. I will live in the spirit. Holy Ghost, fill me to the overflow that I might walk right, talk right and move right. I thank you, Lord. My past is behind me and my future is amazing. Weeping may have endured for a night, but my joy begins today. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. We've got pastors to my left if you want to make the Potter's House your house. And it is. We would love to be your pastors. We're for you. We're with you. We're excited to pour into you and to build you and to walk with you. We're proud of you. We love you. See them right here. You can scan the QR code if you have to leave. We love you. See you Wednesday night for Walk it Out Wednesday. May the Lord bless and keep you. May make his face to shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. God bless you. Love you very much. 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